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Demographics

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Education/Training in Christian Life Coaching

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I have completed the CLCF 1, 2, 3 Training, Life Recovery Coaching 12 Steps, Transformed Living Key Fundamentals, Core Principles, Practical Application and the mini course Growing Your Coaching Business. All through ICCI.

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Mentoring in Christian Life Coaching

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Field Experience in Christian Life Coaching

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Over the last six years, I have had the opportunity to put into practice my Christian Life Coaching as I serve as the International Student Coordinator for Blue Mountain Christian University. Another of my responsibilities is as Resident Director in one of the university's three dorms. I am a "mom" to an additional twenty-four young ladies.

Currently, I serve 52 students from over 24 different countries. Acting as their advocate, coordinator, and "mom." I am able to coach students as they maneuver cultural differences and develop important decision-making skills that will serve them well in the future. I recently worked with a student from the United Kingdom as he was working through a difficult decision of whether to return home or continue with his studies in the United States.

God has given me the joy and privilege to walk alongside so many throughout the years, allowing them to process and work through many life challenges.

I look forward to using the education, skills, and practices learned through ICCI to impact those I serve.

Other Professional Credentialing or Certification

Spiritual Orientation and Practice

Please define/describe your thoughts and beliefs on the following questions.

Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. My everything.

Romans 10 9-10
If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

Romans 10:13
For everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be save.

Accept what God has done by faith (Belief) and receive salvation as a gift. Responding by committing your life to following Christ, and enter into a relationship with him through prayer, Bible reading, and worship.

It is the inspired word of God, without error or fault in all its teaching. To be read and followed.

I believe the Holy Spirit is part of the trinity, co-equal with God the Father and God the Son and is of the same essence. Yet He is also distinct from them, personal and with us, to teach us, guide us, comfort us and intercede for us.

Trying to keep this brief, I often like to share my testimony using the little nursery rhyme. "Here is the Church, here is the steeple."

Who would have ever believed one could find spiritual and factual truths in such a simple rhyme? I sure did not. But for me it gives me prospective as to the call the Lord has had on my life.

Having been raised in a Christian home. I knew about Jesus from a very early age and remember having a deep desire for Him and to serve people around the world. It was desire I could not explain until I grew older.

As a little girl, I never paid much attention to the words being recited in the nursery rhyme. To me it was just a fun way to describe a place where a bunch of people would gather one or two days a week to talk about Jesus. Of course, my family was a part of that group. We were there because it was something to do and a great place to visit our friends whose parents made them go as well. Honestly, I really can't remember many times not being at church growing up. It was my life and deep down I loved being where people talked about Jesus. I was involved in everything. I look back and see I was trying to find my place in desire I couldn’t explain.

In my teen years, my thoughts and ideas toward church began to change and guess what? It those messages changed me.

The messages became truth to me and often I would leave feeling as if the Lord Himself had spoken directly to me or that His presence was sitting or walking right next to me. I began to tuned out my talkative friends and began to listen intently. Listening for a small voice drawing and calling me to Him. A voice I knew but didn't really know, until....

March 12, 1972, not in a church building, but a gymnasium, I allowed the Holy Spirits to take this ragtag, lost and hurting girl from the rafters of the gym to a makeshift altar. There I was met by those who had invested Jesus in me. I confessed my sins and need for a savior. I accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. I became His that day.

As I grew in my faith and love for Jesus, I began to see the wiggly fingers inside my nursery rhyme church differently. I began to see them as faces.

Faces of the many people who had invested and encouraged me in my faith. The faces of the many people who were or who had taken the time to serve in the church or community all in the name of Jesus. I saw the dear faces of the people who loved the Lord with their whole being. I saw the faces of people I wanted to be like. I began to see faces of hurting and lost people from all around the world. Faces I wanted to meet and share the Love of Christ with.

Those early years also instilled in me a deep desire for Jesus and in me a desire to grow in my faith. A faith I would learn to run to in my times of need and despair. A faith to “follow Him” by obeying and trusting Him as I left my corporate job and spent 15 years in full-time international missions. I've not looked back in knowing and trusting that the Lord was and continues to be my everything.

I love people and I serving them and telling them about the Lord.

Of course, as I have come to know the Lord has a plan from the beginning. Even before I was born.
A few days before I packed up my home to move onboard one of Mercy Ships Hospital Ship, my mom began to share with me the prayers she had before I was born. Specifically, a desperate prayer from her broken heart. After 5 years of having not being able to conceive another child, mom bargained with the Lord. Lord if you will only let me have another child, “they will be yours.” I was committed that day to Him for His service.

The faithfulness of the Lord in fulfilling her heart’s desire resulted in the fulfillment of my heart’s desire When I accepted Him. A desire to share the Good News of Christ to the hurting around the world. A desire started 30+ years ago and continues today as he brings international students from around the world to me.

My practice/ministry will be to provide coaching and training that inspires and motivates individuals or groups to God’s best for their lives. Using prayer, Biblical truths, Biblical values, and grace to encourage clients who may be walking through difficult challenges or difficult times in their lives, to become all that God created them to be.

Communicating clearly using the skills learned through ICCI, I desire to be a vessel used by God to walk alongside individuals grow in their understanding and belief of God and His word and to be transformed in their thinking and understanding.

I found this description somewhere and love it.

Coaching is a great tool and an awesome blessing from God which help us grow and see beyond limitations. Coaching assists us in overcoming challenges and help us come out our comfort zones and grow. Coaching is all about transformation. God wants us to transform and become more like Him as we live our days in this world. Our God is the God of amazing transformations.

ICCI Applicant Attestation

Note: The following statements require your attestation (affirming each one to be true to the best of your knowledge). Please be sure to respond to each and every section regarding yourself and your Life Coaching practice or ministry.

The foundation to all work and identity as a Christian Life Coach is a living, vibrant, and personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The following statements require your attestation (affirming each one to be true to the best of your knowledge). Please be sure to review each and every section that directly pertains to you and your professional life coaching, and/or ministerial work. The information it contains is important and will be referenced in the Application Form. Depending on your responses, additional information may be required in order to process your Application. 

SECTION A: Christian Personal Testimony

SECTION B: Christian Coaching Testimony (Required)

The practice of Christian Life Coaching genuinely incorporates scriptural truths, biblical principles and guidance, and a Christian value system into one’s coaching/ministerial practice, theoretical orientation, and professional life. ICCI is dedicated to credentialing Christian Life Coaches, not simply people and lay helpers who happen to be Christian, but do not incorporate their faith into practice. Please respond to the following items by checking the appropriate box: (Required)

SECTION C: Ethical Integrity (Required)

Each applicant must demonstrate and maintain ethical integrity in all Life Coaching, ministerial, and professionally related activities. Please note that a Yes answer to any of the following questions will not necessarily disqualify you for the credential you are seeking. If the case has been properly remedied and/or disposed of, and you are under no current ethical complaint or investigation, then the application process can proceed. Please respond to the following items by checking the appropriate box:

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ICCI Applicant Agreement

CERTIFICATION

Applicants certify all information in the Application Packet is true and complete, and understand they have the burden of producing all information necessary for ICCI to fairly and fully evaluate their qualifications, background, ethics, and Christian character in order to be considered for one of the ICCI credentials. They agree to inform ICCI of any changes in this information. Misstatements or omissions from the Application may be cause for denial of appointment or reappointment of the credential. Applicants further agree that any subsequent adverse information about them and/or their practice may be cause for disciplinary action – including the possibility of having the credential suspended or revoked.

AUTHORIZATION

Applicants authorize and give the ICCI consent to contact and, without restriction, discuss any issues pertaining to their character and qualifications with individuals submitting recommendation forms or providing mentoring services. Consent is given for the release of all information, records, and documents, by whatever means the ICCI chooses to collect this data, and to assist them in the good-faith evaluation of their Application. If a question arises in the future about their character and qualifications to the credential, they agree to assist the ICCI in its efforts to resolve any questions it may have.

INDEMNIFICATION

Applicants release from any and all liability ICCI, Hope Together Network, LLC, Hope for the Heart, JAWS, LLC, and any individual officers, directors, employees, or agents of these organizations for any and all acts done in good faith and without malice or intent to harm in connection with the evaluation of their Application for an ICCI credential.

DISPUTE RESOLUTION

If a dispute arises between the applicant and ICCI regarding the application or any future matter, applicants agree to engage in dispute resolution that (1) first attempts direct negotiation; (2) then attempts mediation with a mediator acceptable to both parties; (3) then uses arbitration and binding arbitration to resolve the matter, which mediation/arbitration shall take place in Dallas, Texas.

CREDENTIAL RESOLUTION

Applicants resolve to support the mission and goals of the ICCI and further agree to abide by and fully adhere to the ICCI Doctrinal Statement. They have not hidden, nor omitted any necessary information related to receiving the credential. If they qualify, they will hold their ICCI credential in the highest regard, honor the calling of God in Christian Life Coaching, and maintain both excellence and an ethical stance as a servant-leader in the field. Furthermore, they will strive to avoid all behavior that compromises the name of Christ, the cause of Christian Life Coaching, and the purposes of the ICCI.

Applicants acknowledge they have read, discussed as needed, and fully understand this Agreement. They acknowledge that by signing the formal Application Form, they do hereby agree with all consent and authorization statements that are described herein.

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Credential Requirements

Basic Requirements

Continuing Education Requirements

All ICCI credential holders are required to obtain 15 CONTACT HOURS of Continuing Education on an annual basis and these hours must incorporate biblical principles and coaching skills with theory, knowledge, and practice.

Continuing Education is a term that applies to obtaining contact hours across a broad range of post-secondary (beyond high school) learning activities and programs. Some examples include degree credit courses, non-degree career training, self-directed learning, experiential learning, seminars, symposiums, workshops, conference presentations, and classroom lectures. The method and format of delivery may be face-to-face, distance/online learning, printed texts/workbooks, the use of videotaped materials, etc.

ICCI approved Continuing Education and competency activities can occur in the following categories:

Category #1: Continuing Education activities that the credential holder ENGAGES in as a RECIPIENT

NOTE: A minimum of ten (10) contact hours of the required total number of hours must be from Category #1

• Formally organized learning (college/university courses, workshops, seminars, professional or ministerial conferences, presentations, home study, etc.). The delivery of content may be either face-to-face or electronic (e.g., CD, DVD, computer, Web-based, etc.)
• Training experiences at churches or other Christian organizations that resulted in a certificate of completion or other verifiable documentation of participation
• Publications (e.g., journals, magazines, etc.) that have a CE component and a process providing verification of completion
• Coaching supervision and/or consultation that is received and documented

Category #2: Continuing Education activities that the credential holder PROVIDES as a FACILITATOR

• Facilitating, training or presenting at an organized conference/seminar/class that incorporates biblical principles and life coaching skills with theory, knowledge, and practice (the same presentation may only be used once in a renewal period)
• Teaching a post-secondary class that incorporates biblical principles and life coaching skills with theory, knowledge, and practice (the same course may only be used once in a renewal period)
• Producing new training materials and/or curriculum that incorporates biblical principles and coaching skills with theory, knowledge, and practice
• Publishing (a book, book chapter, journal/magazine article, etc.)

Acceptable Forms of Documentation for Continuing Education activities:

• Certificates of Completion
• CE letters or other forms documenting participation
• Official transcripts and/or diplomas
• Reprints of published articles, book chapters, training materials, etc.
• Proof of presentations that were given and/or courses that were taught
• Formal letters from supervisors and/or consultants

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References

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Sign and Send

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I affirm and attest by my electronic signature below that I have answered all questions in this Application truthfully and have done so to the best of my knowledge and with full disclosure. I further authorize ICCI to verify this information and understand that in the process of verification, these facts might become known to third parties. I expressively waive any claim to confidentiality of the material enclosed in this Application except where otherwise noted.